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This is sweet, small town book with a lot of charm. It's not action packed, but it portrays a small, desert town with many likeable characters.

It is kind of like a character study for eleven year olds. Lucky is an adopted 11 year old girl who's seemingly had a lot of adult troubles, i.e., her mother dies when she is eight, and she is adopted by one of her absent father's girlfriends who owns a cafe in the very small town of Hard Pan, CA.

The backdrop of the town of Hard Pan is wonderful as seen by newcomers and the people who live in the town. There are some wonderful by stories that are heartwarming and they are about friendship and family.

I would recommend this book as a glimpse for a child to see what it would be like to live outside the subdivision - people live in all kinds of situations, and Lucky's is unique and her life and lifestyle are details very well in this story.


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Lucky Breaks Hard Pan Trilogy Susan Patron Matt Phelan 9781416939986 Books Reviews

This is the second book in Susan Patron's trilogy about a girl named Lucky. The first book in the trilogy, The Higher Power of Lucky, which won the Newbery Medal, is the best of the three books. In this book, Lucky Breaks, Lucky is about to be 11 years old. The issues on her mind are more light-hearted than in the first book. The "old" characters remain consistent enough as they age; the "new" characters are distinctive and fun enough. Repeatedly re-using felicitous phrases from the first book (even though it's not word for word but merely in concept) is definitely most un-felicitous. Except for that unfortunate lack of creativity, the strongest point of books 2 (Lucky Breaks) and 3 (Lucky for Good) is the consistency in voice, style, and tone that the author masterfully maintained. Readers who are fans of Lucky, her friends, and her setting might enjoy this book; non-fans might consider sparing their precious reading time by skipping this book.
SUPER!!!
So fun. I like the way the story flows from the dialogue to the descriptions . love this series and the people of Hard pan.
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Review of all three books in the 'Hard Pan Trilogy'
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Lucky lives in Hard Pan, California, in a canned-ham bedroom attached to a trailer. She lives with Brigitte, who is not her mother but her biological father's French ex-wife. Brigitte came to Hard Pan all the way from France because Lucky's father asked her to, after Lucky's mother went out into the desert after a storm and was struck dead by lightening.

So for now Lucky lives with Brigitte, who calls her 'petite puce' which sounds lovely in French, but really means 'little flea' in English. Lucky loves Brigitte, but does not dare hope that she will want to be Lucky's mother for good.

So in between trying not to hope that Brigitte will become Lucky's mother, and avoiding looking at her real dead mother's ashes in an urn, Lucky decides to find her higher power to get her through. It's what everyone talks about at the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting held at Hard Pan's Found Object Wind Chime Museum. Higher power. Short Sammy talks about it a lot, when he recounts the story of the day his beloved dog got bit by a snake and his wife left him, and how he ended up finding his higher power that got him through the worst time in his life.

'The Higher Power of Lucky' was Susan Patron's 2007 Newberry award-winning middle-grade book. In 2010 Patron went on to continue Lucky's story with 'Lucky Breaks', and ending with 'Lucky For Good' in 2011, when Lucky is twelve-years-old, rounding the books out to the 'Hard Pan Trilogy'.

Susan Patron's series is a complete delight; for both its charismatically flawed heroine and her delightfully quirky hometown of Hard Pan. The first book, 'Higher Power of Lucky' begins when Lucky is ten-years-old, and her mother has just recently passed away, 'replacing' her with her father's ex-wife, the French Brigitte. We are introduced to this very unconventional family unit, which encompasses the wider town of Hard Pan, populated with quirky characters. There's Lucky's best friend, Lincoln, a knot-tying protégé with hopes of becoming the future President of the United States. Litle boy Miles who has a perfectly-timed cookie-retrieval system for visiting all the Hard Pan residents. There's also Short Sammy who lives in a water tank, and mourns the loss of his best dog friend not to mention an archeological team who breeze through Hard Pan to stop at Brigitte's renowned French-bistro café.

The books are all about Lucky; a glorious ragamuffin of a girl who is navigating the changing landscape of her life after losing her mother. The books begin when she is ten and follow her to age twelve, but Patron's brilliance lies in not restricting Lucky to her young age - she has moments, particularly in 'Lucky Breaks' and especially 'Lucky For Good' when she's starting to notice the opposite sex, beginning to appreciate (and resent) the flaws in her character and truly come to realize the impacting world beyond Hard Pan. 'Lucky For Good' is a particularly interesting book for Lucky's evolution, because she starts to think on the feelings of resentment and anger she has towards her absent father - who abandoned Lucky and her mother shortly after she was conceived. Patron doesn't inundate the books with all of these life-changing, big marker moments - and it's partly thanks to the third-person narration that as readers we can see Lucky's forming character, but don't get bogged down in the life-changing momentousness of it all. Patron is such a masterful storyteller, particularly in her middle-grade revelations, that she gives the readers just enough incite to have that spark of recognition regarding big changes within Lucky. And some of Patron's emotive descriptions and similes are just so pitch-perfect and brilliant;

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Lucky had the same jolting feeling as when you're in a big hurry to pee and you pull down your pants fast and back up to the toilet without looking - but some man or boy before you has forgotten to put the seat down. So your bottom, which is expecting the usual nicely shaped plastic toilet seat, instead lands shocked on the thin rim of the toilet bowl, which is quite a lot colder and lower. Your bottom gets a panic of bad surprise. That was the same thump-on-the-heart shock Lucky got finding out that Miles's mother was in jail.
-- 'The Higher Power of Lucky'
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These books are very much focused on family, but not the conventional, nuclear one of other middle-grade books. Patron, in her 'Lucky' series really embraces the notion that it takes a village to raise a child, and lacking blood-ties doesn't mean lacking in love. Lucky's interactions with her stepmother, Brigitte, are heartfelt and lovely.

I really enjoyed reading Susan Patron's Newberry-winning series, focused on Hard Pan native, little girl Lucky and the cast of quirky characters in her desert hometown.
This is sweet, small town book with a lot of charm. It's not action packed, but it portrays a small, desert town with many likeable characters.

It is kind of like a character study for eleven year olds. Lucky is an adopted 11 year old girl who's seemingly had a lot of adult troubles, i.e., her mother dies when she is eight, and she is adopted by one of her absent father's girlfriends who owns a cafe in the very small town of Hard Pan, CA.

The backdrop of the town of Hard Pan is wonderful as seen by newcomers and the people who live in the town. There are some wonderful by stories that are heartwarming and they are about friendship and family.

I would recommend this book as a glimpse for a child to see what it would be like to live outside the subdivision - people live in all kinds of situations, and Lucky's is unique and her life and lifestyle are details very well in this story.